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Introduction to Konduktor

Konduktor is a self-hosted agent orchestrator that lets you launch and manage agents to help you build a great product while staying really tightly in-the-loop. Traditional orchestrators are often more overwhelming than they are useful. They encourage you to fire off countless agents to supposedly move faster but don’t really help you coordinate and oversee their work in a cohesive way, leaving you with a fragmented picture of what’s going on. This harms your focus and requires you to regularly find ways to course-correct. With Konduktor we’re trying to figure out the best way for humans and agents to work together towards building great products. Rather than building for the way we develop software today, we’re building for tomorrow, while still being extremely useful right now.

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Quickstart

If you’re on MacOS or a Debian-based Linux distro you can use our one-liner install script. Read more about it on the dedicated page about the one-liner install.

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Prerequisites

  • Claude Code installed and authenticated
  • gh CLI installed and authenticated
  • git installed and configured

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Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yakkomajuri/konduktor-oss/main/install.sh | bash
If you’re on another OS, follow the manual installation steps.
Konduktor runs on a machine you own, be it your laptop or a VPS. However, it’s strongly recommended to deploy this on a remote machine behind a domain so that you can benefit from GitHub webhooks, run agents overnight (without any hassle), and let the agents operate more freely away from your personal stuff.

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Features

  • Background agents: Create a task, run in the background, get a PR back. Resume the session, inspect logs, add metadata, etc. Full end-to-end experience.
  • Scheduled agents: Create agents that run on a schedule throughout the day or overnight. Mine currently challenge my specs, hunt bugs, do first-pass reviews, and come up with ideas.
  • Projects: Manage work for complex features with a spec and defined project phases. Tasks in a phase can be completed in parallel (by you, your agent, or a combination of both) and phases only get unblocked when all tasks from the previous phase were completed. Scheduled agents are great at managing projects and starting work autonomously once tasks are unblocked.
  • Asynchronous questions: The questions API lets agents ask you clarifying questions about your tasks, forcing you to think and spec things better, and enabling them to automatically start work once they have enough context. The questions experience is really nice both in the UI and the CLI, and I start my day by answering questions.
  • Kanban board: Classic feature from standard orchestrators. Oversee work from a Kanban board that both you and your agents can manage.
  • Product docs: Write your vision, plans, PRDs, etc. inside Konduktor. Choose what’s just for you and what’s required reading for your agents.
  • CLI: Anything in Konduktor can be managed from the CLI, making it so that you don’t need to leave the terminal if you don’t want to, and that whatever coding agent you use can leverage Konduktor as a source of truth and easily coordinate work.
  • GitHub integration: Merged PRs get moved to “Done” automatically. Merge conflicts get resolved as soon as they occur. CI failures get auto-fixed.